empowering users, providing the means to create meaningful works on these devices.
If you limit your view of meaningful works to things that require thousands of keystrokes then yes -- SmartPhones are very limiting. If you expand on that to include audio, video, photos, art and shorter form writing they are not so limiting anymore.
Apps like Brushes on iOS have produced professional quality artwork for The New Yorker.
Some musicians are starting to use SmartPhones (or tablets) as instruments in the studio and on the road. There are lots of very high quality audio apps these days. The Flaming Lips are using the iPad extensively on their upcoming project.
Expressing yourself short form through Twitter or FaceBook can be very meaningful to people. With high quality voice dictation it's quite possible we'll start seeing SmartPhones be more useful for longer form writing too.
If you limit your view of meaningful works to things that require thousands of keystrokes then yes -- SmartPhones are very limiting. If you expand on that to include audio, video, photos, art and shorter form writing they are not so limiting anymore.
Apps like Brushes on iOS have produced professional quality artwork for The New Yorker.
Some musicians are starting to use SmartPhones (or tablets) as instruments in the studio and on the road. There are lots of very high quality audio apps these days. The Flaming Lips are using the iPad extensively on their upcoming project.
Expressing yourself short form through Twitter or FaceBook can be very meaningful to people. With high quality voice dictation it's quite possible we'll start seeing SmartPhones be more useful for longer form writing too.